diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 2e36689..0a7568a 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 MIT License
 
-Copyright (c) 2020 UK Government Data Science
+Copyright (c) 2020 Crown copyright (Government Digital Service)
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
diff --git a/{{ cookiecutter.repo_name }}/LICENSE b/{{ cookiecutter.repo_name }}/LICENSE
index 3da85c3..3161959 100644
--- a/{{ cookiecutter.repo_name }}/LICENSE	
+++ b/{{ cookiecutter.repo_name }}/LICENSE	
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 MIT License
 
-Copyright (c) {% now "Europe/London", "%Y" %} {{ cookiecutter.department_name }}
+Copyright (c) {% now "Europe/London", "%Y" %} Crown copyright ({{ cookiecutter.department_name }})
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal